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Neal-Stress? What Stress?

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"Hey Neal, I was wondering if you could help me with-WHOA, what happened to you?"
"I haven't slept in three days, Ben."
"Neal, you're kind of freaking me out here."
"Sorry, Ben, I can't talk right now, I have to turn in these very important documents and grade all of this student work and later hyperventilate, I'll catch you later OH GOD I'M NOT GOING TO MAKE THE DEADLINE *flee*"

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Every so often I have to draw Neal (my half-bee scientist who teaches art at The Academy of Evil, for those keeping track) or else I forget how to draw him.

Very slightly changed Neal's design so now his blue labcoat is open and he's wearing a shirt underneath. I will start making updated bios and references for these characters, mark my words!


I was going to digitally color this but then I wanted to experiment with a dirtier type of colored pencil coloring. My Digital coloring's still too "clean". If Neal's a wreck then I want that reflected in the coloring. Not sure if it worked, but it was fun to do.

It's fun drawing Neal when he's not happy. Don't get me wrong, most of the time he is happy, but Neal's also a little bundle of nerves in that he can go from zero to freaked out in no time at all. He doesn't do it all the time, mind, but chances are if there's a deadline that needs to be met, Neal's the one in the Academy that will stay up for four days straight and be drinking the most coffee and Red Bull to make sure that absolutely everything is done and is perfect. Let's just say he mutated himself to have an extra set of arms for a good reason. Two times the hands, two times the work imput.

It's just that Dr. Neal Sect can't handle stress too well. Oh sure, most of the time he has everything done on time and he's a more efficient worker than Ben. It's just that Neal's very easy to crack under pressure. The more stressed he gets, the more panicky he gets, to the point where you'll have him unable to sit down or unable to actually walk because everything must be done!

I like to imagine that in the Academy of Evil and previously in his various other jobs, Neal's usually the guy that people hand their unfinished work to since Neal's usually the one that makes the least mistakes. Ben likes to do it a lot. Hell, half of those papers are probably things that Ben was supposed to grade but then he slacked off.

Ah well, at least he got everything done. What follows next would probably be Neal taking a power nap for about several days before he's back to normal.

And now I sleep. Whoo.
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CanoScan LiDE 110
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juanito316ss's avatar
He's got so stressed he got more muscular xDDD